Hi, maybe someone here can help and save us :sweat...

# multiplatform

[Lital Amos]

Hi, maybe someone here can help and save us 😅
In our app, we’re using a KMM library developed by us, that library uses a cocoapod. Out of a team of 9 devs, 2 of our devs, all of a sudden, can’t seem to build the project. The reason is that iosMain does not recognize cocoapods at all.
• These devs tried clearing gradle cache, deleting Android Studio, redownloading the repo, reinstalling cocoapods, etc. But nothing helps, still, cocoapods is not recognized.
• cocoapods/synthetic/pods have the right pods there.
Will be glad to get some help.
Thanks

[Pablichjenkov]

"All of the sudden" sounds like some update. Do they update, gradle, the kmm plugin, Android Studio, Xcode, MacOs, ruby lang, cocoapods itself something?
Also, do you get to see some logs somewhere. So one can have an idea

[Pamela Hill]

I know there was recently an XCode update. You will have to update XCode and possibly the simulators. Remember to restart Android Studio too!

[Pamela Hill]

Also check that KDoctor is still giving the all green ✅

[Rafael Augusto Pena]

I had a problem recently and I needed to downgrade my Xcode to 15.0.0

[Lital Amos]

So, for one of them, which is a complete mystery, he has moved to a task which did not require him to compile the KMM project and after 5 days, coming back to build KMM has worked.
For the second dev, he moved to a branch which moved our Kotlin version from 1.8.20 to 1.9.21, this is when it all started for him, no other updates. He just moved to test another branch. Literally in the middle of working with another branch which worked fine.
Moving back to the previous branch that worked does not work now, even after doing complete clear cache and manually deleting .gradle.

[Pablichjenkov]

I call that, ghost 👻 in the office 😃
But most likely should be cache related. If you get some logs of what doesn't work, then we could have an idea.

[McEna]

Something that works for me when iOs goes crazy is gradlew clean --refresh-dependencies && --rerun-tasks

[McEna]

basically, regenerate everything

[McEna]

also, sometimes starting up a new project from the wizard brings my machine back

[McEna]

Also, when facing obscure issues, always append --info or --debug to your gradle tasks. The top level logging does not show whatever happens with the secondary tools (like xcode terminal tools)

[Pablichjenkov]

I do recall being involved in that type of situation and deleting one of the Xcode cache files fixes it. Unfortunately I don't recall the file name but I will look through my notes and post it here later.

[Pablichjenkov]

DerivedData was the directory. Give it a try to deleting the DerivedData in Xcode

[Lital Amos]

Thanks for your suggestions. Will try and let you know.